How can we be better virtual citizens? Wherein the article tells briefly of Gibson’s experience in Second Life, on par with the first day at high school.
This Is Just Wrong. And I Must Have Them!
But I’ve never looked good in the classic sneaker, but c’mon, a Buzz Rickson’s William Gibson sneaker?!?!?!
Stephenson In LA Times
Interview with fountain-pen wielding writer extraordinare, Neil Stephenson. Still haven’t read Snow Crash, keep starting and stopping that one — it’s some kind of extreme Gibson loyalty that if were, forefend, to enjoy another big cyberpunkist, I’d be dissin William. Hmm. Not like I don’t read Sterling and uh, a bunch of others. Oh well, i seemed to have gotten over it enough to read Cryptonomicon, which was absolutely one of my top 25 if not top 10 books I’ve ever read! But Snow Crash is just to self-imagined-to-me derivative of Gibson’s work that I … just … can’t … quite …. grok … it.
Gibson Q&A
Just found this in his blog, William Gibson answering questions on a Barnes and Noble website.
Killswitch
Found this today in my news alerts, a review of the X-Files classic Gibson/Maddox written episode, Killswitch. And I totally agree with the write-up, yep, my fav X-File episode. Well that and the dude with the tail….
Hissss
Steampunk Anthology review in LA Times.
Charles Stross
A quick interview with Charles Stross in the Guardian yesterday. A pretty good take-way: “It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings,” he says. “Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.”
The Future of Gaming
How can you go wrong with a blog entry that instantly quotes both William Gibson … and Dan Quayle! Well, nevermind, but The Age has an interesting read on some future trends in gaming, with somewhat of an Australian slant but still some good insights and trend analysis. And a mention of the long hyped “Spore.”
How Many Do You Recognize?
PC World has a pretty good list of the Top 50 Tech Visionaries, and admittedly, there were more than half that were unknown to me — not as big a geek as I thought I was! But yep, holding his own at No. 48 …. William Gibson!
Kelly McCullough puts out 2 new books…
I have already read Kelly’s first book WebMage